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prof.dr.ir. D. Lutters (Eric)

Full Professor

About Me

Being educated as a Mechanical Engineer while having an keen interest in product design, I teach subjects related to product development as the linking pin between design and (production) engineering. This ranges from production techniques & systems, via design methodology to information management and virtual reality. I'm quite involved in the BSc. and MSc. programmes Industrial Design Engineering. For the MSc. programme, I coordinate the track 'Management of Product Development' (MoPD). Next to being interested in the content of the programmes, I am also very interested in educational methods and educational innovations. 

My research interest is in Information driven Product Development & Engineering - because I firmly believe that the value of the information content by far exceeds the significance of processes as the pacer of development cycles. With our group, we therefore aim to engender tools and techniques for design support, bringing together topics like Virtual Reality, Digital Twins/Prototypes/Masters, sustainability, (non-deterministic) decision making and uncertainty in development cycles. 

At the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform at the University of Twente, I am a member of the steering board, and I'm also involved in a number of research projects at the FPC, focusing on Industry 4.0, Digital Twins, Virtual Dashboards and VR/AR solutions. 

I am a fellow of CIRP, the International Academy for Production Research; within CIRP I am active in the Scientific Technical Committee on Design and currently I'm chairperson of the overarching STC assembly

Next to my work in Twente, I am a professor extraordinary at the department Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South-Africa.

 

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
Decision Making
Digital Twin
Industry
Life Cycle
Packaging
Product Design
Product Development
Twinning

Ancillary Activities

  • PAO Techniek en Management
    Board member PAO Techniek en Management (PAOTM)
  • Stellenbosch University; department Industrial Engineering
    Professor extraordinary

Publications

Recent
Damgrave, R. G. J. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Simultaneous multi-stakeholder digital twinning for anticipated production environments. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing, COMA 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Nassehi, A., Colledani, M., Kádár, B. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Daydreaming factories. CIRP annals : manufacturing technology, 71(2), 671-692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2022.05.002
Zwier, M. , Lutters, E. , & Gommer, L. (2022). Project based learning and reflection in a manufacturing environment. In M. S. Gudjonsdottir, H. Audunsson, A. M. Donoso, G. Kristjansson, I. Saemundsdottir, J. T. Foley, M. Kyas, A. Sripakagorn, J. Roslof, J. Bennedsen, K. Edstrom, N. Kuptasthien, & R. Lyng (Eds.), 18th CDIO International Conference, CDIO 2022: Proceedings - Full Papers (pp. 539-550). (Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference; Vol. 2022). Reykjavík University.
Lutters, E., Massa, J. , Damgrave, R. , Thiede, S. , & Gommer, L. (2022). Integration of learning and research in a multi-perspective learning factory. In M. S. Gudjonsdottir, H. Audunsson, A. M. Donoso, G. Kristjansson, I. Saemundsdottir, J. T. Foley, M. Kyas, A. Sripakagorn, J. Roslof, J. Bennedsen, K. Edstrom, N. Kuptasthien, & R. Lyng (Eds.), 18th CDIO International Conference, CDIO 2022: Proceedings - Full Papers (pp. 551-562). (Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference; Vol. 2022). Reykjavík University.
Lutters, E. , & Damgrave, R. G. J. (2022). Accuracy in Digital Twinning: an exploration based on asset location. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing, COMA 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Von Leipzig, T. , Lutters, E., Hummel, V., & Schutte, C. (2022). An Architecture for Bidirectional Learning Games. International journal of game-based learning, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.4018/IJGBL.294009

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Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2021/2022

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W236
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex  W236
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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